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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The last few foreign trained doctors who saw my parents were so awful there’s no way they were brighter than American trained nurses we dealt with. Rude, obnoxious, unprofessional, and scammed my parents out of large sums of money with unnecessary office and hospital visits and prescriptions and tests. [/quote]

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23:15 is right about how the vast majority of foreign medical graduates got into medical school in their countries and became doctors.  Demonstrated desire to become a doctor is simply not a criterion in those countries--having top grades and test results are pretty much the only criterion.

This is not about foreign students getting into US medical school because they pay full freight.  It is extraordinarily difficult for them to get into medical school here and only a very small percentage of US med school students are foreign.

Their opening to become a US doctor is at the residency level because there are so many more openings for residents in the US than there are graduating US doctors to fill them.  About one quarter of residency slots would go unfilled if foreign medical graduates weren't there to fill the gap.

The real question may be to what extent do those choosing foreign medical graduates to fill residency gaps really screen them for dedication to medicine and patients instead of to a debt free entrance to perhaps the most consistently well paying and secure professions in the U.S.[/quote]

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